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  • Venezuela: Regime bans six major airlines after tensions with US escalate

    Source: BBC News [UK state media]

    “Venezuela has banned six major international airlines from landing in the country after they failed to meet a 48-hour deadline to resume flights there. The airlines had temporarily suspended their routes into the capital, Caracas, after the US warned of ‘heightened military activity’ in the area. Angered by this, the Venezuelan government issued the carriers with an ultimatum that expired on Wednesday. While a number of smaller airlines continue to fly to Venezuela, thousands of passengers have been affected. The US has deployed a large force to waters off Venezuela, which it says is to combat drug trafficking but which Venezuela’s leader has denounced as an attempt to overthrow him. Venezuela’s civil aviation authority, which reports to the country’s ministry of transport, announced on Wednesday that Iberia, TAP Portugal, Gol, Latam, Avianca and Turkish Airlines would lose their landing and take-off rights with immediate effect.” (11/27/25)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0keyern0do

  • DC: Suspect in shooting of occupation troops had ties to CIA, agency confirms

    Source: The Guardian [UK]

    “The suspected shooter of two national guard members in Washington DC on Wednesday worked with CIA-backed military units during the US war in Afghanistan, the agency has confirmed. The alleged gunman, identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, came to the US in September 2021 under an Operation Allies Welcome program that gave some Afghans who had worked for the US government entry visas to the US. Lakanwal’s ties to the Central Intelligence Agency, which worked alongside US special forces in Afghanistan, were confirmed by the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, to media outlets on Wednesday evening. … Following the shooting, Donald Trump ordered 500 additional national guard [occupation] troops to Washington.” (11/27/25)

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/27/washington-dc-national-guard-shooting-suspect

  • Guinea: General sworn in as “transitional president” after coup

    Source: Reuters

    “Guinea-Bissau’s military installed General Horta Nta Na Man as transitional president on Thursday, an army statement said, a day after soldiers toppled President Umaro Sissoco Embalo in a swift power grab that followed a disputed election. The self-styled ‘High Military Command for the Restoration of Order’ announced in a televised statement on Wednesday that they had ousted Embalo, in the latest episode of unrest in the coup-prone country. … Wednesday’s army takeover came one day before provisional results had been expected to be announced in the race between Embalo and Fernando Dias, a 47-year-old political newcomer who had emerged as Embalo’s top challenger to run the West African state, which is a hub for cocaine trafficking.” (11/27/25)

    https://archive.is/9CWOz


  • The WHO’s Campaign Against Safe Nicotine

    Source: Brownstone Institute
    by Roger Bate

    “Every two years, the 183 Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) meet for the Conference of the Parties (COP). This is the treaty’s governing body: a closed-door diplomatic forum where decisions are made on global tobacco policy, regulatory guidelines, technical documents, and the political direction of the treaty system. … The most revealing episode from COP11 was not about taxes or liability. It was the campaign against a small group of countries—Saint Kitts & Nevis, Dominica, New Zealand, the Philippines, and others—that dared to raise an uncomfortable but obvious point: safer nicotine products exist, millions use them, and the treaty should look honestly at the evidence.” (11/27/25)

    https://brownstone.org/articles/the-whos-campaign-against-safe-nicotine/

  • If you really love America, push it to live up to its promise

    Source: Orange County Register
    by Agustina Vergara Cid

    “I’ve been asked a few times why I chose to become an American at this juncture — after witnessing the decline of our institutions, freedom and values at the hands of leaders across the political spectrum. I still chose to become an American because I know that what’s been happening in many realms in this country is not what America is about. I know that forcing businesses to close, as happened during the pandemic, is not the essence of America, but a betrayal of it. I know that cracking down on freedom of speech and having masked agents roaming the streets is anathema to our core values. … Every attack on freedom and individual rights that we see in our country (now and historically) is not a consequence of American founding values, but of the deviation from them.” (11/27/25)

    https://archive.is/wnRBG

  • States Are Reaffirming Property Rights at the Racetrack

    Source: The Daily Economy
    by Antón Chamberlin

    “It is important to celebrate victories for economic freedom as they emerge, even when they come in the most peculiar of places. One such place is the racing world. In October, North Carolina Governor Josh Stein signed into law HB 926, called the ‘Right to Race’ law. This new measure shields racetracks from noise-related nuisance lawsuits if the facility existed and was permitted before nearby properties were developed. This is an incredible win for economic freedom against NIMBYs demanding to silence roaring engines after making the decision to move next to a racetrack.” (11/27/25)

    https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/states-are-reaffirming-property-rights-at-the-racetrack/

  • Agent Orange is the chemical weapon that keeps on killing

    Source: Responsible Statecraft
    by Susan Hammond & Sera Koulabdara

    “Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed an estimated 20 million gallons of herbicides over southern Vietnam, along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, and parts of Cambodia. Nearly two-thirds was Agent Orange, later discovered to be contaminated with 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) — a potent, long-lasting dioxin. TCDD is a known human carcinogen and an endocrine disruptor, linked to cancers, reproductive disorders, and birth defects that can span generations. By the letter of the CWC, Agent Orange is not classified as a ‘chemical weapon.’” If you ask a Vietnam veteran suffering from Parkinson’s, cancer, heart disease, or any of the 19 types of conditions the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) associates with Agent Orange exposure, you’ll hear a very different story. To them, it was every bit a weapon designed to destroy life and health.” (11/27/25)

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/agent-orange/

  • Thanksgiving and the Constitution

    Source: Judging Freedom
    by Andrew P Napolitano

    “What if, on Thanksgiving Day, our gratitude is not to the government that assaults our freedoms and steals our wealth but to God, who gave us our freedoms and our ability to earn wealth? What if, on Thanksgiving Day, our gratitude is for life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the exercise of free will and human reason? What if these are integral to our humanity despite the government’s assaults on them? ​What if, on Thanksgiving Day, we recognize the evils of a government that is blind to the consequences of its killings, borrowings and assaults on freedom?” (11/27/25)

    https://archive.is/ygy00